It may be easier to create a bogus ximian cups package that provides the missing dependency and is otherwise empty, but that may mess with your rpm db in ways you may not like. *shrug* >>> kent at structural-wood.com 05/04/04 11:21AM >>> I'm trying to install ximians openoffice rpm, and it's got a gratuitous dependency on ximians cups package, which of course conflicts with another package. Is there any way to simply extract the spec file, take out the gratuitous dependency, and then reinsert the spec file in the package. To somewhat limit alternative suggestions. 1) Ximians openoffice is *very* nice looking - much nicer than the stock openoffice 2) I like rpm's 3) I like apt 4) I don't use cups because I've got a huge amount of infrastructure built around lprng 5) Ximians openoffice runs absolutely peachy with lprng and without cups 6) I can't just do a --nodeps, because that will forever after break apt-get 7) Doing a rebuild off the source rpm is apparently not doable. I estimate that the universe reaches thermal equilibrium just about the time the 5e12'th error is spewed from the rebuild process. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list